Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
Episodes
Linux After Dark – Episode 121
08 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How we get back to our home LANs when we are away travelling etc. It mostly involves WireGuard and Tailscale. We also get into blocking ads, mostly wi...
2.5 Admins 298: Windows Postdate
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft is encouraging employees with the most experience to leave the company and letting users pause Windows updates forever, some of the best fea...
Late Night Linux – Episode 384
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could ...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 149
03 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s yet another hot questions episode. Colour schemes, syntax highlighting, code patterns, fonts, and keyboards. ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 55
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A recent attack shone a light on some of the problems with GitHub Actions, and CI/CD more generally. As tempting as it might be, going back to shell s...
2.5 Admins 297: Jraphics
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PCs and gen...
Late Night Linux – Episode 383
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we ha...
Linux After Dark – Episode 120
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chris ended up with a managed M4 Macbook Air at work with no sudo or root. So how does a Linux user get on with his first ever Mac? Turns out pretty w...
2.5 Admins 296: Beware of the Leopard
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft locks devs out of important accounts, the foreign router ban exemptions make even less sense, Backblaze shows that “unlimited” n...
Late Night Linux – Episode 382
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 148
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We get into dependency management. The pros and cons of tools like Dependabot, the varying approaches with different languages and standard library si...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 54
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Aaron and Shane share some thoughts about attending Kubecon, including the push for European sovereign cloud, how platform engineering might mitigate ...
2.5 Admins 295: Orbital Meltdown
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why putting data center satellites in orbit is a terrible idea, Google might show people a made-up version of your website, and ZFS on really old Dell...
Late Night Linux – Episode 381
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “...
Linux After Dark – Episode 119
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
May wants to make a space heater out of an old computer, and Joe is thinking about buying a new (used) laptop. The heater will be pretty straightforwa...
2.5 Admins 294: Oh, R2
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Arm announces its first CPU, Anthropic accidentally leaks the source for Claude Code and it’s terrible, and setting up a backup for a friend...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 35
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What we do when we get stressed, cinema vs theatre, our mentors, and if we’ve tried being vegetarian. With Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from...
Late Night Linux – Episode 380
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when i...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 147
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s another hot questions episode. Whether we think better on our own or with other people, our non-standard debugging habits, favourite interv...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 53
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The ugliest and jankiest hacks we’ve put into prod, and a few of the worst things we’ve seen other people get away with. &nb...
2.5 Admins 293: Reduced Flicker
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting less rubbish but we are skeptical, vehicles with alcohol interlocks won’t start because the manufacturer...
Late Night Linux – Episode 379
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries,...
Linux After Dark – Episode 118
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We decided to give openSUSE a try. We had a great time. Honest. Support us on Patreon and get ...
2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The US government is drumming up fear about foreign routers, a pretty serious supply chain attack might be state-sponsored, and the safety of filesyst...
Late Night Linux – Episode 378
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock And...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 146
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 52
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Gary is concerned that he might have dug himself into a hole of on-prem vendor lock-in, despite using open source software. Plus why you should have P...
2.5 Admins 291: UPS for LiFePO4
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why passkeys aren’t the right solution to everything, Allan tells us why he loves his new Lithium Iron Phosphate UPS, Btrfs vs ZFS on root, and ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 377
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more. &...
Linux After Dark – Episode 117
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
May has actually been using her stack of laptops and learning that “legacy” distros make more sense, the Firefox flatpak performs better t...
2.5 Admins 290: Tired of Tracking
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft Authenticator will delete Entra credentials on phones that aren’t running stock ROMs, Jim’s nightmare experience trying to get a...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 34
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our favourite smells, whether we use dark mode, and whether there’s any meaning to life. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cl...
Late Night Linux – Episode 376
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 145
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The importance of having and sticking to correct development processes, what can go wrong when you don’t, and how to fix the problems you might ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 51
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We recently talked about backing up Shane’s homelab, but this time it’s the turn of enterprise backups. Risk management, cloud and hybrid ...
2.5 Admins 289: Hunter2
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An exciting new cold storage technology seems to be getting closer, Nvidia seemingly wants a slice of the laptop hardware action, why you (and your us...
Late Night Linux – Episode 375
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to grap...
Linux After Dark – Episode 116
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The end of Windows 10 and the terrible state of Windows 11 are driving more and more people to Linux. How do we help people actually manage the switch...
2.5 Admins 288: HDD Tourism
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone aft...
Late Night Linux – Episode 374
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 144
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
People often like to talk down Electron, but it is really that bad? There may be better ways to use Web technologies to make desktop apps, but isnR...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 50
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sean tells us about a recent catastrophe in his Kubernetes homelab (that’s really home prod). What went wrong, how did he fix it, and how can he...
2.5 Admins 287: Dual Arguators
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jim and Allan disagree on how new hard drive tech is likely to work, more on storage and compute in the same box, and how we set up disk encryption on...
Late Night Linux – Episode 373
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting,...
Linux After Dark – Episode 115
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
With the price of RAM and storage through the roof, what are we going to do when it comes to supporting people who come to us for IT advice? &n...
2.5 Admins 286: Windows Crashed
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Notepad++ falls victim to a state-sponsored attacker, AI agents talk nonsense to each other on an insecure vibe coded social network, and backing up a...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 33
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The best museums we’ve been to, the people we admire, and our weirdest train journeys. With Gary from Linux After Dark. &nb...
Late Night Linux – Episode 372
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might t...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 143
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The career progression options you have as a software engineer, moving from junior to senior dev, other paths you can go down like architecture or tec...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 49
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why we have doubts about the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud, what it would take to build a proper European cloud that could compete with AWS, and wh...
2.5 Admins 285: example.com.oops
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Outlook’s autodiscover feature is leaking data again, our thoughts on the cycle of cloud and on-prem (centralised and local computing), and why ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 371
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Malware in the Snap store highlights the risks of modern package management, but users accidentally ending up with a totally different desktop environ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 114
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do you convince people to step using unethical technology like generative AI? Support us on Patreon and ...
2.5 Admins 284: BooTooth
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why you might not want your Windows encryption keys to be backed up to Microsoft, some Bluetooth devices are vulnerable to snooping and tracking, a le...
Late Night Linux – Episode 370
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Wikipedia is 25 years old and has found a good way to deal with the AI scraping problem, the Python Software Foundation funds the security work they h...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 142
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Software complexity is a complex topic, so we dig into it. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 48
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Shane is worried about backups for his janky Kubernetes homelab. The rest of us advise him on exactly what to back up, how to go about picking an offs...
2.5 Admins 283: FSOD
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The last method to activate Windows without the Internet has gone away, malware that tricks users with a fake blue screen of death, and recovering fro...
Late Night Linux – Episode 369
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We cover your feedback including follow-up on old tablets as clocks, Firefox alternatives, and moving off Gmail. Plus building synths in Rust, FOSS is...
Linux After Dark – Episode 113
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We follow up on episode 104 from September last year when we promised to tackle some Linux projects including moving to Immich and Jellyfin, learning ...
2.5 Admins 282: Fragile DNS
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Cisco network gear fell over when it shouldn’t have, yet another security flaw is found in Microsoft Copilot, the US military is letting Grok in...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 32
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The normal things we’ve never done. With Andy and Kevin from Linux Dev Time. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 368
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hype is really starting to build for Valve’s upcoming Steam hardware and other great gaming news, Stack Overflow is losing to LLMs, old men like...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 141
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dealing with a crisis as a developer, how to keep everyone in the loop while you fix systems and code, why pointing the blame isn’t useful, som...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 47
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What to consider when making a big move to a new technology for your on-prem or private cloud estate, for example when a provider suddenly hikes their...
2.5 Admins 281: Lead The Target
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The many reasons why email shouldn’t be trusted. Plus how to stop your kids accessing inappropriate content online, and why the answer probably ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 367
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2025 predictions, and make some new ones for 2026. Will mentioned The Enshittifinancial Cris...
Linux After Dark – Episode 112
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2025, and talk about what we want to happen in 2026. &nbs...
2.5 Admins 280: Bad Parking
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why you should probably keep paying for your old domains, the perpetual problem of typo squatting, a machine learning expert’s take on BS from L...
Late Night Linux – Episode 366
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayl...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 140
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What we are likely to be doing when you hear this, and why it’s unlikely to involve much in the way of development. This is a short episode beca...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 46
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What we love most about the cloud and cloud native technologies. This is a short episode because (producer) Joe is having a break for the Christmas pe...
2.5 Admins 279: Short One
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The one bit of advice we’d give to someone wanting to become a professional sysadmin. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 365
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Good news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 111
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We tell stories from some of the tech support nightmares we’ve found ourselves in. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the...
2.5 Admins 278: XXXfil
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Apple deletes a person’s entire digital life, PornHub Premium user data is leaked, Mozilla’s new CEO wants to ruin Firefox, Tech Force in ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 364
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 139
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How far you can go with eliminating global variables, forcing everything you ever need to be passed in as arguments. Tails...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 45
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to connect your public environments across clouds and into your datacenter infrastructure – using official options, VPNs and new ideas like ...
2.5 Admins 277: Battering RAM
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Crucial brand of consumer SSDs and RAM is going away, AMD and Intel memory encryption can be bypassed with cheap hardware, more AI buffoonery, and...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 31
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How many jobs we’ve had, how seriously we take our Christmas decorations, whether we like pineapple on pizza, and memorable romantic dates. With...
Late Night Linux – Episode 363
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Arduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new mod...
Linux After Dark – Episode 110
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the Linux and open source tech from our past that inspired where we are today. Support us on Patreon and ge...
2.5 Admins 276: Very Prudish Network
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What a government crackdown on VPNs would look like, malware groups play the long game with browser extensions, a new major version of FreeBSD is rele...
Late Night Linux – Episode 362
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
KDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a ...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 138
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the right time to make a big change to your software is, how you get users to test pre-release versions, how long you keep old features around, w...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 44
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud security basics, some of the technical and compliance aspects, and why it ultimately comes down to a people problem. ...
2.5 Admins 275: G-word
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google kept collecting sensor data even after bricking Nest thermostats, FreeBSD’s container support gets serious, and where to find cheap (or ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 361
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ubuntu get 15 years of support, Google finally releases Android source code and backs down on “sideloading”, more steps to move on from X11, IKEA ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 109
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How we’ve all set up our backups including GUI distros vs doing it the hard way, ZFS vs Borg, and why it’s tricky to chose the right offsite locat...
2.5 Admins 274: Go Go Gadget Windows
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Windows is becoming an “agentic OS”, some WD SMR drives are dying prematurely, backing up VMware with ZFS, and separating trusted and non-trusted ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 360
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense. News Steam M...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 137
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What object-oriented programming is, why it went out of fashion, and how more modern approaches to development incorporate some of its aspects. ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 43
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We dig into the recent major AWS outage, why a misconfiguration in one region called global issues, and whether there’s anything you can do to avoid...
2.5 Admins 273: Reliability Tracking
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Allan tells us about the recent OpenZFS Summit including inconsistent JBODs, more details about mixed disk sizes in ZFS with AnyRaid, an upcoming stan...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 30
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The skills we wish we had (but accept we never will), what we are most scared of and if we’d confront it for money, and whether free will exists. Wi...
Linux Matters 68: Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Alan dusts off his newsletter. Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sh...
Late Night Linux – Episode 359
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM...
Linux After Dark – Episode 108
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, an...
2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died a...